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Your Memory

Nostalgia has me boxed
in the stupid wall of this afternoon.
Someone somewhere bastes in happiness
beneath the fresh shade of love.
The earth is like a great comal*
above God's hot coals.
Gnomes hop across red-hot paths
while a dog
compulsively licks her vulva, then wanders southward.

I recall the fingers of your hand,
your bony fingers.
My eyes choke for the moons of your lips.
Your memory has me nailed to the lukewarm afternoon
and I resemble the shadow of a body buried yesterday,
a shadow that looks to the north, to the south,
that seeks, without finding, the path.

Forgetting exists.
Maybe because of this, God doesn't die.
Who said
that if someone can walk over coals
they can also do it over the wind?

Laugh at me please, you told me
while the fierce metal of the phraseI wish you all the best sunk into the pit of my love,
while you told me we won't see each other anymore.

Laugh shadow
or beat it to look for your skeleton!

The meat of my memories
hangs in strips at the grocer's
because of the blind wind of your lips.